Key: C
Introduction: C F C G
C C/B F C
In a castle keep, in a vault of stone
F C G
In a house at the end of the lane
C C/B F C
An old man weeps in his door alone
F C
And he sings out this mournful refrain
F C
She will not come back
G C
She will not come back
F C G
Though the mountains fall down to the sea
F C G Am
And the sky burns to cinders and the rivers runs black
F G C G
She will not come back to me
C C/B F C
No lightning reed from his books of lore
F C G
And the staff in the corner, no fire
C C/B F C
And the crystal ball, always bright before
F C
Is grey as the dust of desire
F C
She will not come back
G C
She will not come back
F C G
Though we call on the powers that be
F C G Am
They will cipher this message in his cold zodiac
F C
She will not come back
G Am
She will not come back
F G C G
She will not come back to me
C C/B F C
And joy my love was a dancing spring
F C G
And life was the touch of her lips
C C/B F C
And a brook ran mad to my cave downstream
F C
From the miracle hills of her hips
F C
She will not come back
G C
She will not come back
F C G
Though the stars hang their tears in the trees
F C G Am
And tireless Orion lies spent in his tracks
F C
She will not come back
G Am
She will not come back
F G Am F
She will not come back to me
C G C
She will not come back to me